a channel for my findings

I was linked to this website today. It is a collection of examples of idiocy in coding. Having looked through the last week's entries, this has to be my favourite:

the original programmers didn't really believe in using the WHERE clause when it came to SELECT statements

ResultRecord getDetail(String contactId)
{
    String sql = "select * from contacts";
    ResultSet resultSet = GetResultSetFromSql(sql);
    while(resultSet.hasNext())
    {
        ResultRecord record = resultSet.next();
        if(record.getContactId().equals(contactId))
        {
              return record;
        }
    }
}

This website is a pleasing addition to my bookmarks folder. I'll use it as an outlet for the pain I periodically suffer when finding snippets like that. I'll use it often.